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Dr. Pamela Benitez, MD, FACS
Pamela R. Benitez, MD is a general surgeon at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI, where she has a busy practice focusing exclusively on diseases of the breast and breast cancer. She is also highly active in research and medical education. Dr. Benitez graduated Albany Medical College and did her surgical residency at the University of Michigan Hospitals. Her recent publications are on the cosmetic outcomes and toxicities with interstitial catheter brachytherapy partial breast irradiation, infections with breast surgery, and partial breast irradiation and non-invasive breast cancer. Board certified by the American Board of Surgery, her most recent work has appeared in Cancer and The American Journal of Surgery.
Dr. Benitez’ clinical research also includes participation with the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, and the Beaumont Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP). She has been involved with partial breast irradiation since the early 1990s as an early investigator when research was begun in partial breast irradiation at William Beaumont Hospital. Dr. Benitez is very passionate about working with women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and is committed to improving their care. She also works as the Medical Director of The Shades of Pink Foundation, which provides temporary financial assistance to women experiencing financial distress as a result of breast cancer.
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Dr. Peter Blumencranz, MD, FACS
Peter W. Blumencranz, MD, FACS is an accomplished breast cancer surgeon, educator, and researcher. He currently serves as the Medical Director of Moffitt Morton Plant Cancer Care and Medical Director for Comprehensive Breast Health and Cancer Services at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, FL. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he obtained his MD from Cornell University Medical School, where he completed internship and residency before completing a surgical fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
A board-certified surgeon, Dr. Blumencranz is also a Fellow of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and the American College of Surgeons, as well as an American College of Surgeons Approved Instructor in Stereotactic Breast Biopsy. He has been widely involved in clinical research projects, including breast cancer mapping studies, and trials designed to validate the efficacy of accelerated partial breast irradiation with MammoSite. Dr. Blumencranz has written, presented, and taught on such topics as treatment of locally advanced primary breast cancer, minimally invasive breast biopsy and lymphatic mapping, evaluation of sentinel node skills, and molecular assays for detection of metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.
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Dr. Alison Laidley, MD, FACS
Alison L. Laidley, MD, FACS, FRCS(C) received her medical training in Canada, graduating from the University of Alberta cum laude in 1984. She completed her general surgery residency in 1990 and then a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. During her residency, she published several papers about cancer cell DNA evaluation which predicted patient outcome. She has been in the private practice of breast surgery in Dallas, TX for the past 15 years.
Dr. Laidley is on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. She is the Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Society and has been co-director of pre-meeting courses held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting. She is a member of the National Ultrasound Faculty of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Laidley is frequently asked to speak about emerging new technologies such as breast brachytherapy and breast MRI. She is an active participant in the Dallas Chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation through her award winning grass roots patient group “Laidley’s Ladies.”
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Dr. Louis Munoz, MD, FACS
Louis Munoz, MD, FACRO is the 2007 president of the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO). He specializes in pediatric and adult radiation oncology. Dr. Munoz is the Medical Director of the Division of Radiation Oncology at Medical City Dallas Hospital and Chairman of the Radiation Research Committee at Texas Oncology. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Munoz is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the American Board of Radiology.
Dr. Munoz received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1974. His post-graduate training in pediatrics, pediatric hematology-oncology, and radiation oncology occurred at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Munoz has been a member of ACRO since the late 1990s, serving on the Standards Committee and then the Board of Chancellors prior to becoming vice president and becoming an ACRO Fellow. He has published over 15 articles and several abstracts in professional journals.
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Dr. S. Eric Olyejar, MD, FACS
Eric Olyejar, MD directed his interests to radiation oncology after obtaining his MD with honors from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Currently in private practice in Chandler, AZ, he completed his surgical internship and residency in radiation oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he was named Chief Resident from 2003-2005.
A board-certified radiation oncologist, Dr. Olyejar is highly skilled in a number of specialty radiation procedures for targeted tumor sites, including 3D conformal radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) using ADAC techniques; stereotactic radiosurgery; low-dose, high-dose, and intravascular brachytherapy for breast, prostate, gynecologic, and head and neck cancers; and total body irradiation. Over the course of his training, he has won numerous awards for academic excellence and published over eight papers.
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Dr. Bradley Prestidge, MD
Dr. Bradley Prestidge is the founder, President, CEO, and Medical Director of the Texas Cancer Clinic and Texas Prostate Institute, both in San Antonio. With more than 20 years experience in brachytherapy, Dr. Prestidge is considered an international expert in the field with particular expertise in permanent prostate brachytherapy dosimetric analysis and defining implant quality. He teaches courses in advanced prostate seed implantation and High Dose Rate implantation every month to physicians from all over the US in his state-of-the-art facility.
Dr. Prestidge, board certified by American Board of Radiation Oncology, received his undergraduate and graduate education at San Jose State University. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Postgraduate work included Internal Medicine and Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, where he learned brachytherapy techniques. The author of more than 50 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Prestidge has served as a consultant in research and development for several of the seed manufacturing and equipment related companies. He sits on editorial boards of and is a reviewer for several journals. He has taught a refresher course in prostate brachytherapy at ASTRO and RSNA, and lectured at many major academic centers and meetings in the US, Europe, South America, and Japan.
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Dr. Amir Sadeghi, Ph.D
Amir Sadeghi, Ph.D. is the Chief of Medical Physics at the Texas Cancer Clinic. Dr. Sadeghi oversees the physicists, medical dosimetrists, and graduate students. He is in charge of the radiation treatment planning for MammoSite® patients and has extensive knowledge in High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy. He is also an assistant professor of the Radiological Sciences Division of the Department of Radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His professional experience includes over 12 years of research, teaching, consulting, and treatment planning in radiological physics.
Dr. Sadeghi graduated from Louisiana State University in 1984, and received his masters of science in medical physics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1994, where he also completed his Ph.D. in radiological sciences in 1996. He is licensed throughout the state of Texas to practice medical physics. Dr. Sadeghi is a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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